Piping Today is the National Piping Centre’s bi-monthly magazine which seeks to promote the music, history and study of the bagpipes. Subscribe here.
Features from Issue 47 - Aug/Sept 2010
- Toronto Police Pipe Band - Moving to the medley
- British Championships 2010 - Photo feature from Annan
- Tribute to GS McLennan - Tunes from a Silent Chanter
- Judging Piobaireachd - Piobaireachd Society Judging Seminar report from Jack Taylor
- Laying the groundwork - A piper’s blog from Lorne MacDougall
- The Canterbury Caledonian Society Pipe Band - From the land of the long white cloud
- The Wind in the Bellows - LBPS Border/Smallpipe manual
- Stuart Robertson’s Nine Notes and more… Bob Worrall - Last Train to Malaga
- The Highland Bagpipe - Music, History, Tradition - Book review by Allan MacDonald
- The Donald MacDonald Quaich 2010 - by Prof. Dan MacInnes
- Neil Cranston 1964-2010 - Tribute by Fraser Bruce
- National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music - at Plockton High School
Plus the usual features such as the Youngstars Newsletter…
Additional Online Content
Issue 45 - Mountain Piping - Bagpipes in American old-time music. Click here for additional online content.
As a taster…
You can read these articles that appeared in previous issues of Piping Today:
Terry Tully, SLOT - Patience of the Saints
Tom Speirs - From a deep well of music
Rory Grossart - The art of reed manipulation
Drum Sergeant David Ross - NYPBoS Question time
Contact Anna Scott: ascott@thepipingcentre.co.uk

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